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Check data type of a cell in Excel

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I am working with List rows present in a table and I need to know what data type a column, string, integer, date, decimal has, how can I do it? I can't find a way to do it and have it return the type in order to process it.

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    Hi , @rcardenasb 

    You can use the expression in flow to process your data in your Excel file. In general , from the List rows present in a table, the return type is always the string type in the flow output.

    For the integer type and decimal type , you can use the int()/decimal() function to parse it :
    Reference guide for expression functions - Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Learn

    Reference guide for expression functions - Azure Logic Apps | Microsoft Learn

     

    And for the date, you can use the Date and time functions in the flow, like this:

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    Best Regards,

    Yueyun Zhang

     

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    45 on at

    Thanks for the tip Yueyun Zhang, For the moment i resolve the problem using scope.

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